PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT

Covenant Health-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Knoxville, TN
5,001-10,000 employees
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The Patient Care Assistant in the Pulmonary-Complex Medical Unit at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a full-time position requiring 72 hours per pay period on the night shift. The role involves direct patient care, assisting registered nurses with hands-on care, and performing specified technical tasks for a group of patients under supervision. The Complex Medical Unit caters to a variety of medically complex patients who require a higher level of care than a standard medical floor but do not need intensive care. The position emphasizes teamwork, communication, and a patient-first approach, with a focus on fostering a positive work culture.

  • Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
  • Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
  • Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
  • Attend to nutritional needs of patients which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
  • Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
  • Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
  • Assist in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
  • Provide general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
  • Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
  • Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
  • Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
  • Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training).
  • Perform EKG (requires special training).
  • Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
  • Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
  • Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
  • Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
  • Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
  • Gather equipment for O2 set up. Check O2 for connection and proper placement.
  • Check for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
  • Ambulate patients with oxygen.
  • Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
  • Demonstrate ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
  • Follow policies, procedures, and safety standards. Complete required education assignments annually. Work toward achieving goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • None specified; will accept any combination of formal education and/or prior work experience sufficient to demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skill and ability needed to perform the essential tasks of the job, typically such as would be equivalent to a high school diploma or GED.
  • CPR certification required.
  • Preference may be given to individuals possessing a high school diploma or GED.
  • $3,000 Sign-on Bonus
  • Unmatched medical insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Certification bonuses
  • Leadership and professional development programs
  • Employer-matched 401(k)
  • Generous Combined Time Off (CTO) program
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